Puzzle.



s W B HR Tm m MP um am APPLIGATIOH FILED HAILQY, 1909.

Patentefl Nev. 2, 1909.

INVENTOR W Aftomey UNITED STATES.

PATENT oar-Ion.

GEORGE E. MATTHEWS, OF WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, ASSIGNOR 0F 01%- HALF TO WILLIAM B. MATTHEWS, 9F WASHING-TON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

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Vi ashiugt'on, in the District of Columbia,

have invented certain new and useful linprovenients in Puzzles; and l. do hereby (leclare the following to he a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will. enable others skilled 1n the art to which erence being lliltl to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters o1 reference marked thereon, whiclrforni a part of this spei'ilicalion.

This invention relates to ne and useful improvements in puzzles and comprises a board having arranged thereon labyrintn passageways with a central space in which it is the purpose of the puzzle to cause balls to roll from the entrance ot'the board to the center and again make exit at a location dia metrically opposite the entrance.

My invention is illustrated in the accola- 'panying drawings,-in which I v Figure 1 is a top plan View of the puzzle, and Fig. 2 is a sectional view on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1.

Reference now being had to the details ot? the drawings by letter, A designates a board, preferably circular in outline, from which rises the cylindrical wall B. Vithin this wall and inclosing an open central space or goal at the center of the board are the segmental bands or partitions C, arranged in a series of concentric circles around the central open space and spaced apart so as to form a series of concentric runways or passageways. The segments forming each of these concentrio walls are spaced apart to leave passage it appertains to make and use the same, re'l- I Specification of Letters Patent. Application filed 'liarch 27, 1909. Serial No. 486,206.

Patented Nov. 23, 159W).

1 'ays betwecnthe adjacent circular runways, l these passageways or openings in the walls being so arranged as to form, with the circular runways, a zigzag passageway from .the central space to the outer wall B. Each runway is crossed by one or more radial pan titions l and the segments ofthe innermost for a distance into the central open space.

In operation two balls are placed at the goal or starting point near the circuinterence ot' the device and, by tilting the board in l (litter-exit planes, it is the purposeof the puzzle to cause both balls to pass through the titions and passageways between-the partitions into a central open space keeping the openspace, so further manipulate the board the passageways to the goal or point of starting.

What I claim to be new is: es i A puzzle consisting of a board having a series of curved segment partitions arranged in concentric circles around a. central open space and spaced apart so as to leave pasthe concentric partitions, and radial projeccurved segments.

signature in the presence of two witnesses. GEORGE B. MATTHE /VS. \Vitnesses:

A. L. HoUoH, FRANKLIN H. Honou spaces between the concentric segment parballs together if possible and, after both of the latter have been brought ti) the central that the halls may again pass out through 'sageways between then radial partitions obstrnctuig certain of the passageways between In testimony whereof I hereunto atlix my wall have radial projections 9 extending out tions extending from theinnermost of the v 

